Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who shocked Washington on Thursday with the announcement that he would resign his Senate seat in January to become president of the the Heritage Foundation, sent a parting shot at Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) over the fiscal cliff negotiations.

Im not with Boehner, DeMint said on CNNs "The Situation Room." This government doesnt need any more money, this country needs less government.

Speaker Boehners $800 billion tax hike will destroy American jobs and allow politicians in Washington to spend even more, while not reducing our $16 trillion debt by a single penny, he said in a statement. If neither party leadership is going to put forward a serious plan to balance the budget and pay down the debt, we should end this charade.

Boehner needs to go. Can a vote for Speaker be called at any time during the Congressional session, or once he is selected as Speaker does that entitle him to sit in the position for the entire two years?

It is time for the House to let Boners know he is not going to be re elected the Speaker...The house turned Republican in 2010 because of Tea Party Conservatives... he better learn who butters his toast...because he could be burnt toast soon...

Hell no with that. We need a conservative replacement who will stand up and run against boehner. Who is it? No one will do it. If conservatives don’t have someone in the house with the balls to do that then conservatives don’t deserve to run the house.

While I think it is certainly time for Boehner to go, you are stark raving mad to surest it’s worth getting Pelosi back.

Stop what you are doing, call 911 and asked them to send someone to take you in on a mental hold. They will keep you warm, dry, feed you and fill you full of drugs to help you get through this moment of insanity.

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posted on 12/06/2012 6:06:48 PM PST
by Gator113
(**WHO in the hell gave the damn order to NOT rescue our men in Benghazi?**)

Now that he’s retired from the Senate, the House Republicans should make DeMint Speaker of The House. It’s my understanding that the Speaker doesn’t HAVE to be a sitting Congressman. I wonder if getting a non-Congressman would net them an extra vote as well.

Gee Whiz, give it a rest already. Are you still working the first job you ever had? Have you always worked at each job exactly as long as everyone else thought you should? What if you made a commitment to doing what was best for the company, and it turns out at a particular moment, you quitting was the best thing for the company? Is that still quitting? Or what if you're a commander with troops who trust your judgment, and you decide to strategically withdraw from one battle so you can regroup for a more important one? Are you still a quitter then? Even George Washington was a quitter by those standards.

Look, if we don't keep and nurture our own best talent (Palin, DeMint, etc.), who will we have left? Brainless people who dont know enough to quit a dead end when they ought to, that's who. We can't afford to be leaderless, least of all over non-issues. You give up your vote for DeMint if you must, but I promise you this; I will see that vote and raise you two more (No, not cheaters votes, persuaders votes, the good kind), just to make the point. If an army is going to win, it needs troops and it needs commanders. If we "shoot" all our own commanders, and especially those with exceptional strategic skills, how does that help us?

This government doesnt need any more money, this country needs less government.

That should have been the theme of this election cycle. We could have earned a lot more votes with this message. Instead it was....the economy sucks. I can do better...and that just made it a battle of two personalities, not two ideologies.

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posted on 12/06/2012 6:57:44 PM PST
by ilgipper
(Obama supporters are comprised of the uninformed & the ill-informed)

After this last election its apparent that we need to do more as conservatives to convince Americans that our ideas and our policies will make their lives better, he said. I can do that better at Heritage.

Jim DeMint: still serving up platefulls of awesomesauce.

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posted on 12/06/2012 6:59:02 PM PST
by upchuck
(America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)

A $800 billion tax hike would be the undoing of America’s economy. This is money that will be taken out of free enterprise. It will be money that would go to capital now being flushed down the toilet of big government. Democrats will never use new taxes to reduce the deficit. Instead they will increase state workers and more government waste. This tax hike will take away investment money to grow new plant and pay for new government regulations.

The direct consequence would be to slow economic growth which would impact employment. It would be our nations future when our sons and daughters cannot find jobs in the areas they were educated. Will it be one more reason for corporations to move their operations out of the country?

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posted on 12/06/2012 7:24:08 PM PST
by jonrick46
(The opium of Communists: other people's money.)

A revolution now and again is a good thing, don’t you think?
the Hunt For Red October.

Back the Tea Party! Rinos in the Republican party are not going to do it for us.

I remember Dick Army saying the say thing back in the 90’s I believe. “I can do more on the outside than I can do from within” What a load of shit, translation, I can make a shitload more money in the private section than working for the people of my state. Army is leaving Freedom works with @ 8 million?

Can a vote for Speaker be called at any time during the Congressional session, or once he is selected as Speaker does that entitle him to sit in the position for the entire two years?

The Speaker of the House serves entirely at the pleasure of a majority of the members of that chamber. An election for Speaker can thus be held at any time during a Congressional session, so long as a majority of the House support such a vote.

On Rush’s show today he had DeMint and the retiring president of the Heritage Foundation on the phone. When Rush joked, “Now, Boehner didn’t force the two of you out, did he?” The two guests laughed and DeMint replied, “No, in fact it could go the other way.”

Rush didn’t follow up (and maybe he didn’t catch DeMint’s reply at all) but I found it VERY interesting.

Its my understanding that the Speaker doesnt HAVE to be a sitting Congressman. I wonder if getting a non-Congressman would net them an extra vote as well.

It is probably the intent of the Constitution that the Speaker should be a member of the House. After all, how can you speak for the House without being a member of it? There is also a strong historical precedent that indicates that the Speaker of the House must be a member of that body before he is elected. Never in US history has the House even attempted, so far as I know, to elect a Speaker who is not a member of the House. In fact, not only has the House never elected a non-Representative to be the Speaker of the House, none of the original 13 colonies legislatures, nor any of the 50 states, so far as I know, ever elected a speaker who was not also a member of the chamber who elected them; also the the Speaker of the British parliament's House of Commons, from whom our government in a large part derives is always a member of the House of Commons. There is absolutely no reason or precedent that suggests that the Speaker of the House can be someone who is not already a member of the House of Representatives.

However, that being said, it is true that the constitution does not explicitly say that the Speaker of the House must be a member of the House of Representatives at the time of his election, so I suppose according to the letter of the law the House could try to choose a non-member to be their Speaker if it wanted to. After all, it is the House who is given the sole power to "chuse (sic) its Speaker and other Officers." However, doing this would violate convention and parliamentary tradition.

We can all sleep well knowing that many of the idiots that ragged on Palin as a supposed ‘quitter’ and other things...

...were the very same people that promoted the non-border control of Perry as ‘conservative’, trashed Cain along with the MSM on a trumped up witch hunt and cheered Bachmann for hiring an uber RINO to run (tank) her campaign.

It’s so comforting to know that these same people are still at work torpedoing anyone who displays conservative tendencies and sticking to principle while calling liberal actions and politicians ‘true conservatives.

With their ‘help’ I’m sure we’ll get to the point of looking back fondly on the Romney run.

Thank you very much for the very thorough explanation and bit of history! If either House ever has a job opening for a Parliamentarian, you should sign up and apply! Feel free to use me as a reference. :p

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